Editing Huna (New Age) (section)

===Max Long===
Long believed he had discovered an ancient truth, not just about Hawaiian spirituality but linking back to India and ancient Egypt. He believed Hawaiians were a lost tribe of Berbers, and wrote that spiritual adepts migrated to Hawai‘i from Egypt, passing on to the priests of India some of their basic beliefs.{{sfn|Long|1954|pp=125–26}} Long also linked Huna to [[Theosophy (Blavatskian)|Theosophy]] and [[New Thought]] movements of the time, writing that [[Christian Scientists]] understood positive thinking better than any group he knew,{{sfn|Long|1954|p=364}} and encouraged his readers to subscribe to [[Unity Church]]’s magazine, ''Daily Word''.{{sfn|Long|1954|p=366}}

Huna emphasizes practical living and harmony with three levels of consciousness or selves, a low, middle, and higher self, which were supposedly recognized by ancient kahunas.{{sfn|Melton|2001|page=755}}  Long called these selves the ''unihipili'' (subconscious, inner, emotional, intuitive), ''uhane'' (waking consciousness, rational) and ''aumakua'' (super-conscious, connection with the divine).{{sfn|Long|1954|pp=14–15}} These are not the  Hawaiian meanings of these words,<ref name="Lee 1999 56">{{cite book  | last = Lee| first = Pali Jae| title = Ho'opono| publisher = Night Rainbow Publishing| year = 1999| location = Honolulu | pages = 56| oclc=44516946}}</ref><ref name=Lee2007>{{cite book  | last = Lee| first = Pali Jae| title = Ho'opono – Revised Edition: The Hawaiian Way to Put Things Back in Balance| publisher = IM Publishing| year = 2007| location = Mountain View, HI|edition=2nd| pages = 89–93| isbn =978-0-9677253-7-6}}</ref><ref name=Pukui>{{cite book | last = Pukui | first = Mary Kawena |author2=Samuel H. Elbert| title = Hawaiian Dictionary | publisher = University of Hawaii Press | location = Honolulu | year = 1986 | isbn = 0-8248-0703-0 }}</ref> which are traditionally defined as "the spirit of a dead person", "spirit" or "dirge", and "family or personal gods" respectively.<ref group=note>For full, unabbreviated definitions, please consult the cited dictionary references for each term.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ʻuhane |url=https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=uhane#w2w2-16279 |website=Wehewehe Wikiwiki |publisher=Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ʻunihipili |url=https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=unihipili#w2w2-16473 |website=Wehewehe Wikiwiki |publisher=Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language |access-date=28 May 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=ʻaumakua |url=https://hilo.hawaii.edu/wehe/?q=aumakua#w2w2-11111 |website=Wehewehe Wikiwiki |publisher=Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language |access-date=28 May 2023}}</ref>

In addition, Long redefined the Hawaiian concept of ''[[Mana (Oceanian mythology)|mana]]'', (privileged as a divine power in traditional Hawaiian belief), and presented it instead as a vitalizing life force, which can, with knowledge of the three selves, be used in a manner of "personal empowerment" to heal body and mind and achieve life goals.<ref name = lewis/>